Books Quote by David Guterson Download Open image “I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.” — David Guterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Fighting Persona Relaxed Used
I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It's more… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I don't have to mumble something under my breath when someone asks me what I do anymore. I can just say, definitively, 'I'm an… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting. — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“Ben remembered that in Italy, he and Rachel had slipped down between rows of apple trees on the plain of the Po, deep into… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded--that was how the… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it” — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image